anicca (impermanence)

Toddler’s dance destroys monks’ intricate sand painting

Eight Tibetan monks spent two days cross-legged on the floor at Union Station, leaning over to meticulously create an intricate…

May 24, 2007

“Exploring Karma and Rebirth,” by Nagapriya

Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has a great interest in science and sees an overlap…

February 23, 2007

“Two Treasures: Buddhist Teachings on Awakening and True Happiness,” by Thich Nhat Hanh

Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Two Treasures is a translation of and commentary on two Buddhist texts by Thich Nhat…

February 5, 2007

Milarepa: “When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick.”

Milarepa said, "When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick…

August 5, 2006

Anais Nin: “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself”

It's easy to think of a spiritual life as trying to escape who we are, or as being something that…

December 6, 2005

Witness to a cremation (National Public Radio)

When commentator Ted Rose moved from New York City to the Shambhala Mountain Center, a Buddhist retreat in the Colorado…

August 4, 2004